making a font change today

Thanks, Terry.

Mine is Miniture,hard to read.

In IE, try this:

1. Click TOOLS > INTERNET OPTIONS
2. On the GENERAL tab, click the ACCESSIBILITY button
3. Checkmark "ignore font sizes specified on web pages"
4. Click OK
5. On the GENERAL tab again, click the FONTS button
6. Click the font styles you prefer and click OK
7. Click OK again


In Firebird/Firefox, try this:

1. Click TOOLS > OPTIONS
2. Under GENERAL, click the FONTS AND COLORS button
3. Choose the fonts sizes, styles and colors you want
4. Under "always use my" and checkbox next to "fonts"
5. Click OK
6. Click OK again


I don't have Netscape or other browsers installed, but the fonts setting should be under TOOLS > OPTIONS or EDIT > PREFERENCES...Something like that.

GW,You amaze me!!Thanks!!!

I have friends whose blogs display at such a tiny size, I can't read them. What's more, unless I specify my own font size, I can't resize the text at their sites. Trial by fire, root!

I like it too

and here I thought I had a 'puter virus,glad I came here.

I wonder why holding down my ctrl key and scrolling is not working this time, it worked before...

I tried holding down ctrl and scrolling and it wouldn't work for me either.

Hmmmmm...Not sure why. Try rebooting? Couldn't hurt, LOL!

rebooting does not help either.

i change font sizes to 20. no changes either. i could hardly see what i am reading. everything is so small and almost blurry. sorry i tried everything. nothing seems to work

i have Mozilla Firebird 0.7

What a mystery! Do other programs show up okay? Did your screen resolution get reset to a higher one, maybe? What do other things look like on your screen, like your desktop icons?

desktop look as normal as ever. other url are all the same, no changes. only problem to read font size and color is on DG... everything look blurry and faint color.

when i convert from Netscape 7.1 to Mozilla Firebird 0.7, everything was ok till now :(. at the time of conversion, font size was 12 and 12

I don't know what it could be - I am using Firefox 8 and it looks fine. The fonts are scalable for me with CTRL+Mousewheel.

If you go to TOOLS > OPTIONS > GENERAL > FONTS & COLORS, what is your display resolution set at?

Firefox 0.7 is different than ur

TOOLS> OPTIONS> WEB FEATURES>FONTS & COLORS >

DISPLAY RESOLUTION->72 DPI
MINIMUM FONT SIZE > NONE

i did not change the display resolution nor the minimum font size.

Well, I'm completely stumped!

we just worked you too hard today!!!

hope this help someone else with this kind of problem. i played around and see what will work, and this is what i find satisfactory.

Remember this is for Firefox 0.7
TOOLS> OPTIONS> WEB FEATURES>FONTS & COLORS >
change:
Display Resolution..> 96 dpi
Minimum font size..> 20

thanks for the help Kimberly. i guess i was desperate and feeling nearly blind for the faint color and blurry font size. i had to find what will work best.

Ha! Oh, yeah, tiG, I'm dyin' here, can't you tell?

MaVieRose - Because the fonts are listed in pixels and not points, it makes things interesting! All I can figure is, the size of a user's monitor, coupled with the resolution it's set at, affects how the font size is displayed when fonts are given an absolute size value in points.

This is starting to sound like something for Dr. John Nash to scrawl all over some chalkboard...

I was having a heck of a time with the new font change. Couldn't get anything to look good. Tonight I finally had the time and patience to download Firefox and now everything looks gorgeous! And the cntrl/scroll works for increasing/decreasing size, which it wouldn't in IE. Very nice. And a great inspiration to work on configuring Firefox for my default browser. Hey, Dave, was changing the font a subliminal message to get it together and change to Firefox? Well, it worked.

if it is of any help i have 17" Panasync E70G monitor. i am using Windows 2000.

am not intending to switch to Firefox 0.8 as yet, i had a hard time trying to learn how to make Firebird 0.7 work well to my satisfaction. i am still in the learning process here! am just glad i was able to set up my bookmarks and address book the way i had them prior to switching.

MaVieRose, I have the Apple 20" Studio monitor and I suspect that was a lot of my problems with the font issue with IE. Since it wasn't made for PC, there are sometimes configuration problems with getting screens to look ok. Whatever the problem was, downloading Firefox sure took care of the fonts looking funky. I've only had it for two hours and I can say I'm loving the look.

I hate it! OK, hate may be too strong a word but it is hard to read and I have it set for the largest type size. But out of curiosity tried to reduce the size. It stays the same no matter how I set it and the control and scroll does not enlarge it either. My eyes blur trying to read it now.

Okay, I'm noting something. If I use Firefox, if DG is at a readable size for me, every other site I visit is so tiny I can't read it. When I increase the font size at the other sites so I can read them, and then go back to DG, the fonts here are HUGE. In IE, font sizes remain consistent, nomatter what site I visit.

I'll just put on my glasses......it's easier.

"eyes"